PSC CUNY Research Award Program Aleks Cataruzolo – Program Administrator Margie Louie – Assistant Program Administrator Levon Volpe – Senior Program Assistant

About PSC CUNY Research Awards Created and funded by the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City University of New York and the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY. Awards are distributed by the University Committee on Research Awards, a faculty committee, and administered by the Research Foundation of CUNY.

Eligibility Full-time, permanent, CUNY Employee Visiting professors, substitutes and adjuncts are ineligible HEO’s and CLT’s are eligible, but cannot receive Summer Salary or Release Time. Faculty are not eligible to apply for or receive a Traditional A or B Award for any year in which they have or will receive external grant funding of $100,000 or more in direct costs. Faculty members on sabbatical or scholar incentive leave may apply for and receive awards. Instructional staff members on other leaves may apply, but must have returned to work and be back on full-time University payroll to access a PSC-CUNY award. Tenured faculty may not receive more than two PSC-CUNY awards during a consecutive three- year period, only one of which may be an Enhanced Award.

Eligibility of Proposal 18 panels that cover over 40 disciplines The following activities will not be funded: 1) those that support fulfillment of degree requirements 2) the writing of textbooks 3) the development of a curriculum for specific courses or programs

PSC CUNY Cycle 50 Grants Traditional A, Traditional B & Enhanced Grants Proposal System system opened Sept. 5th and closes Dec. 15, 2018 Duration of 1 year with eligibility for 6-month extension Cycle 50 Grants begin July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020. Expenses or travel that falls outside of these dates are ineligible for reimbursement Individuals may apply to only one of the three types of awards in any given year, as a Principal- Investigator (PI) or Co-PI. *Note: Co-PI’s are ineligible for summer salary or release time. All grant applications are filled out and submitted through the Grants Proposal System online The GPS login credentials are self created

Traditional A – Up to $3,500 Highest volume of funding Project Description 3 Pages (including tables and references) single or double-spaced one-inch margins 10-12 point font Microsoft Word document or an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. – Reviewed by 2 internal reviewers within the panel the application is submitted.

Traditional B More than $3,600 and up to $6,000 Project Description – 5 Pages (including tables and references) single or double-spaced one-inch margins 10-12 point font Microsoft Word document or an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. – Reviewed by 2 internal reviewers within the panel the application is submitted.

Enhanced more than $6,500 and up to $12,000 40-50 awards per cycle Project Description 5 Pages (including tables and references) single or double-spaced one-inch margins 10-12 point font Microsoft Word document or an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Budget Justification Description of what the funds will be used for Reviewed by 2 external reviewers in related field Applicable to submit a list of objectionable reviewers

Evaluation Criteria Scholarly/creative merit Ability of the applicant to perform the proposed work successfully Potential for external funding original contribution to its field or will attain national or international recognition. Appropriateness of the budget proposals. – Budget modifications will not be made, successful applications will be funded in full.

Review Panel Designations PIs must choose one discipline-based Review Panel to submit his/her application Traditional A and B applications are subject to review only by the discipline- based Review Panel. Enhanced Award applications will receive two expert reviews, with the final selection to be made by the University Committee on Research Awards (UCRA), which is comprised of the Review Panel Chairs.

IRB and IACUC Approval Human and Animal Subject use must be indicated on the application form Related IRB or IACUC expenses must be made during the current grant period and the active IRB/IACUC approval period. Please contact your grants office for contact information in regard to the IRB personnel at your campus

Budget Categories Research Staff Clerical Staff Summer Salary Release Time Office supplies Research Supplies Travel – Domestic & Foreign Independent Contractors Subject Payments Laboratory Fees Equipment Publication Costs Ineligible expenses eReaders/Kindles Furniture (equipment) Stipends and tuition P-cards Journal Subscriptions Internet Service Memberships in professional organizations Any item/service that serves an ongoing need Renovations

Summer Salary A maximum of $3,500 may be awarded per grant. Subject to 28% rate fringe benefits Gross academic year salary plus summer salary may not exceed the top salary of the associate professor scale ($106,700.00 for the academic year). The investigator is not eligible for summer salary during any month in which he/she is teaching classes and applying 100% effort. Principal Investigators who are paid on a 12-month basis are not eligible to receive summer salary. HEO’s, CLT’s ineligible for summer salary Co-PI’s are ineligible for Summer Salary Summer salary is awarded for the first summer of the award period.

Release Time Fixed amount of $4,530.00 for three credits of released time – $3,000 for salary and 51.0% fringe benefits Traditional A grants are ineligible for release time Must be approved by Provost/Dean/Department Chair prior to proposal submission. Explanation is required for released time in the budget justification. Instructional staff in non-faculty titles are not eligible for released time. Co-PI’s ineligible for Release Time

Travel – Domestic & Foreign Proposed travel requires a detailed justification including: an itinerary with proposed dates the duration at each location transportation costs estimated per diem expenses other anticipated travel-related expenses Foreign travel must demonstrate that collections and/or resources are not available in the United States. Travel for assistants must be specified and justified. Purchase travel items awarded in the approved budget as of 5/1/2019, however actual travel must occur within the budget period (7/1/2019- 6/30/2020).

Q&A Mock Application – Aleks Cataruzolo, Program Administrator- PSC CUNY – Research Foundation Website – Rfcuny.org – Email: Acata@rfcuny.org – Phone: 212.417.8464 – Grants Proposal System – rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx Margie Louie, Assistant Program Administrator – Email: Margie_Louie@rfcuny.org – Phone: 212.417.8474 Levon Volpe, Senior Program Assistant Mock Application – Email: Levon_Volpe@rfcuny.org – Phone: 212.417.8475